Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous